Balancing competitiveness and climate objectives: Bellona Europa’s insights on the Draghi Report
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
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Publish date: February 10, 2005
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The Russian daily Trud reported on January 25 that the reactor storage pools at the Chernobyl plant are filled up with spent nuclear fuel rods what makes the plant even more dangerous. Another threat at the Chernobyl is the sarcophagus constructed around exploded unit no.4 as it can collapse any day. The beams B1, B2, and the roof, which were mounted in the extreme conditions, are hardly stable, as they were put on the half destroyed base by the crane operators-stalkers when radiation levels were extremely high.
There is no activity on erection of the wall, which could stop the gradual falling of the sarcophagus towards town Pripyat.
The Chernobyl plant director Alexander Smyshlayev explained the situation by the lack of specialists who could dismantle the equipment at the plant. Out of 3,700 people only a few specialists could do that he said, Trud reported. The Chernobyl plant again makes a great potential threat.
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
Russia is a world leader in the construction of nuclear power plants abroad. Despite the sanctions pressure on Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, its nuclear industry has remained virtually untouched.
Today, the Bellona Foundation is launching the establishment of the Center for Marine Restoration in Kabelvåg, Lofoten. At the same time, collaboration agreements related to the center were signed with Norrøna, the University of Tromsø, the Lofoten Council and Blue Harvest Technologies
To ensure that Germany achieves its goal of climate neutrality by 2045, negative emissions are necessary, as depicted in the global IPCC scenarios.